As the frontman for the New Pornographers, AC Newman's been stuffing records full of consummate pop arrangements for the better part of a decade. Here comes another one - "Get Guilty" is due Jan. 20 and features cameos by Jon Wurster, Nicole Atkins and Mates of State. Matador included a preview on their fall sampler, Intended [...]
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I've been trying to tweek my computer speakers to get the best sound output. I don't have crappy speakers (Harman/Kardon shielded sticks with a pretty good sub-woofer), but they are almost too fancy. There's presets that I can tweek with the speakers, and then there's the iTunes equalizer that I can also play with. Given all those choices, I ended up with a pretty good bass sound, but the voc...
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This song really got me going this a.m. on my ride to work.I have been riding my bike to and from work for the last couple of weeks. What with gas prices hitting...ouch...$3.75 a gallon. And what with global warming and all.Yes, I wear headphones and listen to music...No, I don't wear a helmet.I got priorities man.I heard that this song made the cut on the "Heros" soundtrack. It was used in ...
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My opinion but Mass Romantic is The New Pornographers best album and this is my favourite song from that album.
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It may have taken 30 plus years, but I know what I want to do with the rest of my life. I want to be Dan Bejar.Seriously...he has the best job in rock n roll...stumble onto stage, beer in hand...BEER ALWAYS IN HAND....sing your song...stumble back off stage. Repeat this maybe 4 times a night...and your work is done.I would LOVE to be a fly on the wall of a New Pornographers band meeting...The ...
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The New Pornographers recently released this new animated video for the Challengers track "Myriad Harbour." The afro-friendly video was directed by Mark Lomond of the Flourescent Hill directors collective, based in Montreal."Myriad Harbour"
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.....if that title doesn't get me some hits I don't know what will... ha......and speaking of hits... Canadian supergroup The New Pornographers contains the likes of A.C. (Carl) Newman, Neko Case, Dan Bejar (of Destroyer fame) and more... They make sparkling, intelligent music for people that like some talent to go along with the hooks... I lean heavily towards the Newman / Case side of the NPs...
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This spring indie heavyweights Okkervil River and the New Pornographers will be heading out on tour...together. The band's and their enigmatic frontmen will kick off the tour April 9th in Toronto, Ontario and trek across North America through April 22nd. But, let's just say you gush hard for Okkervil River's Will Sheff. Then you're in luck because the Austin, Texas rockers will be warming up th...
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I had an interesting conversation with my boy while driving home in the car…There is a whole convoluted backstory about how we got to the conversation, I just don’t have the patience or energy to get into that much detail, nor do you, I suspect.To sum it all up, the conversation was about SWEARING…Cuss words & foul language.Stewart, my husband, and I both understand that kids swear. Part of
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So simple, so beautiful.I love this song.
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Hmmmmm.....I think I like it...i was worried at first...then it came together in the middle...but then sort of tailed off again...I am going to have to give this one a thumbs sideways....i am still undecided
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Hey fellow Californians, the new hands-free cellphone law went into effect today. Perfect opportunity to share this infectious littel pop ditty by a great band (F.Y.I. you don't have to be from CA to enjoy the MP3).The Law
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I just purchased 4 tickets for The New Pornographers show at the Warfield in SF (Sept. 17th)PRESALE!!!Whoop-de-doo!!!Neko Case and Dan Behar are on for the whole tour, so it will be the full Balmoral breakfast (aka...the whole shebang).
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This will undoubtedly get me into trouble, but I have nothing else to write about at the moment, so here goes...I reviewed the New Pornographers album Challengers last week and found it excruciatingly dull. I don't actually like writing negative reviews, whatever people think. This was assigned, because Challengers is a huge indie record and people want to read about it. They probably don't...
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I'm one of those who think that the first New Pornographers album was quite good but each subsequent one has been successively worse. But my hat goes off to the band's recent "challenge to the YouTube nation" (their wording) which is part of the promo campaign for their most recent album Challengers. The challenge (see it here) was: "Sing a New Pornographers song in the style of Michael McDonal...
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